For my immediate need I chose to use nohup rather than alternatives. There's a paucity of information on the web, even less in the man page. That's OK as it's a simple tool with no options.
I invoked the command in a virtual terminal in one Xfce4 workspace. When I run the command, jobs -l, I see the process number of background running job #1. But, when I try the same command from another v.t. I see nothing. So, if I log out of the GUI will I be able to check from the console that the job has finished or is still running? I have not found an answer on the web; perhaps I've not correctly asked the question there. As this long-running model is on a laptop I can remained logged in if I need to check job status from that one v.t. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
